The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-05
TEMPERANCE.
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Telegraph Wires All Through the Body
How Alcohol Affects Them.

thing had said. IN never believe
it."
Indeed! But hadn't you better
wait awhile before you say that. Shut
your eyes.
Now, how did you shut them? You
don't know, do you? Let me tell you.
When l spoke, the air was set in mo-
striking against another, as the waves
of the sea do. These waves entered
your ear, where little tiny drum is
! stretched to receive them, and this was
made to vibrate. The waves from the
drum are in turn taken up through q
the brain, and the brain, which is the
head telegraph office. at once knows
my wish, which is: Shut Johns eyes"
The chief clerk in the Office then sends
a message to both of your cyelids, say
ing: Go down" and in an instant
they obey.
'But let me see if there are any 9TH
er telegraph wires in your body besides
these"
John shuts his eyes, and touch first
his nose, then his little finger, then
his leg, and finally his hair; and
each time he says he can feel my
/ touches.
"Of course you can feel them, for all
! over your body these little telegraph
wires are to be found, and they send
up in flash the message to the head
Office, the brain, saying: Something
has touched me on the nose, finger,
leg and hair.
These simple experiments fully con-
vince John that he is filled with tclc-
; graph wires. Edith and William are
also deeply interested, and watch the
proceedings as closely as John.
Nov, Edith, | wish to ask YOU a
question. Suppose were to go out and
cut telegraph wire in two, could a
message be sent over it?'
"Of course not" is her immediate
reply.
Suppose it were covered up with
show, or twisted around tree, could II
message then 20 through it?"
She hcsitatcs a moment before she
replies; perhaps it would and perhaps
| il wouldn't"
We'll, it might 90 through, but most
! probably it wouldn't. Now, did you
arm or leg, and yet to look at it there
would be nothing ut all to be seen that
would indicate discase?'
Eyes. l know man Mr.. C,
whose left arm is paralyzed 50 that he
can scarcely use it at al"
'Paralyzedr' l cXclaim. What does
that mcanP"
why" replies thoughtful William,
paralysis is simply the stoppage of
those telegraph wires you've been
speaking about"
You're right, VIII. But what is the
name we give to these wircs?"
Nerves." he quietly explains, while
John and Edith look in wOndcrment at
my allowing him to suggest such
thing.
But so it is.
Now, when man suffers from pa
ralysis, we say that he is afflicted with
most painful disease; and yet there
are men who willfully paralyzc them
selves-men who do it purposely.
Dear mcr' cried Edith. How fool
ish they must be-"
81 think so, too. But let me hasten
and explain how they do it. You re-
member me telling you about that Pc
culiar watery-looking liquid called
alcohol?
well, that alcohol is mixed with
water, sugar and few other things in
drinks that are called beer, wine or
spirits.
Nov, when men take these drinks
into the stomach, the alcohol that is
in them paralyzes the nerves some
what in the same manner rs that man
was paralyzcd to whom Edith just now
referred. You have only to see u main
who has taken quantity of such
liquor to be convinced of what l have
said. Go to him and ask him if he can
walk straight and then to test him, draw |
straight chalk-mark twenty yards |
long, and ask him To walk upon it
He may try, but he will assuredly |
fail. Now, place silver dollars at every
ten PAGES, and tell him he may have
them if he will walk upon the mark,
and even then, although he is anxious |
to walk straight, he will stagger and
leave the line.
"Now, what is the reason of this?
There is but one answer, and that is
given by the leading scientists of the
world; Alcohol has paralyzcd his
nerves